Supplementary Figures S1-S17 from Reversal of Lactate and PD-1–mediated Macrophage Immunosuppression Controls Growth of PTEN/p53-deficient Prostate Cancer
posted on 2023-04-04, 14:04authored byKiranj Chaudagar, Hanna M. Hieromnimon, Rimpi Khurana, Brian Labadie, Taghreed Hirz, Shenglin Mei, Raisa Hasan, Jordan Shafran, Anne Kelley, Eva Apostolov, Ghamdan Al-Eryani, Kate Harvey, Srikrishnan Rameshbabu, Mayme Loyd, Kaela Bynoe, Catherine Drovetsky, Ani Solanki, Erica Markiewicz, Marta Zamora, Xiaobing Fan, Stephan Schürer, Alex Swarbrick, David B. Sykes, Akash Patnaik
<p>Supplementary Figure S1. The majority of Pb-Cre; PTENfl/fl Trp53fl/fl mice are de novo resistant to ADT.
Supplementary Figure S2. ADT/PI3Ki combination therapy halts prostate tumor growth up to 14 days, followed by development of resistance in majority of Pb-Cre; PTENfl/fl Trp53fl/fl mice.
Supplementary Figure S3. PI3Ki treatment with concurrent androgen depletion does not alter proliferation and survival of PTEN/p53-deficient murine PC cells in vitro.
Supplementary Figure S4. ADT/PI3K inhibitor combination increases MHC-II and PD-1 expression on TAM within the TME of PTEN/p53-deficient murine PC.
Supplementary Figure S5. PD-1 upregulation suppresses phagocytic capacity of activated TAM.
Supplementary Figure S6. Ex vivo AD + PI3Ki + PD-1 antibody treatment activates MHCIIlo TAM when co-cultured with PTEN/p53-deficient murine prostate tumor cells.
Supplementary Figure S7. The addition of PD-1 blockade to androgen depletion/PI3Ki therapy does not alter phagocytic capacity of PD-1 lo macrophages.
Supplementary Figure S8. The combination of androgen depletion, PI3Ki and aPD-1 blockade does not alter phagocytic checkpoint expression on PTEN/p53-deficient prostate tumor cells.
Supplementary Figure S9. Androgen depletion, singly and in combination with aPD-1, did not alter phagocytosis activity of inactivated MHC-IIlo/PD-1 lo and MHC-IIlo/PD-1 hi TAM subsets.
Supplementary Figure S10. Androgen depletion, not PI3Ki or aPD1, directly enhances TAM activation within the TME of PTEN/p53-deficient PC.
Supplementary Figure S11. PI3Ki does not alter phagocytosis/histone lactylation status of MHC-IIlo/PD-1 lo TAM and MHC-IIlo/PD-1 hi TAM.
Supplementary Figure S12. PI3Ki inhibits lactate secretion from PTEN/p53-deficient prostate tumor cells within TME.
Supplementary Figure S13. Direct ex vivo treatment of TAM with PI3Ki, singly and in combination with PD-1 antibody and/or androgen depletion does not alter their histone lactylation profile.
Supplementary Figure S14. ADT + PI3Ki + aPD-1 induces tumor control in 60% of Pb-Cre; PTENfl/fl TP53fl/fl mice.
Supplementary Figure S15. Depletion of activated TAM abrogates anti-cancer response elicited by ADT + PI3Ki + PD-1 antibody treatment in the PTEN/p53-deficient murine prostate GEMM tumors.
Supplementary Figure S16. Long-term treatment of ADT + PI3Ki + aPD-1 activates Wnt/βcatenin pathway in murine PTEN/p53-deficient GEMM-derived SC1 cells.
Supplementary Figure S17. Feedback Wnt/β-catenin-pathway activation within murine PTEN/p53-deficient GEMM-derived PC cells following long-term ADT + copanlisib + aPD1 treatment suppresses phagocytosis via increased histone lactylation within bone marrow derived macrophages (BMDM).</p>
Phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) loss of function occurs in approximately 50% of patients with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), and is associated with poor prognosis and responsiveness to standard-of-care therapies and immune checkpoint inhibitors. While PTEN loss of function hyperactivates PI3K signaling, combinatorial PI3K/AKT pathway and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has demonstrated limited anticancer efficacy in clinical trials. Here, we aimed to elucidate mechanism(s) of resistance to ADT/PI3K-AKT axis blockade, and to develop rational combinatorial strategies to effectively treat this molecular subset of mCRPC.
Prostate-specific PTEN/p53-deficient genetically engineered mice (GEM) with established 150–200 mm3 tumors, as assessed by ultrasound, were treated with either ADT (degarelix), PI3K inhibitor (copanlisib), or anti–PD-1 antibody (aPD-1), as single agents or their combinations, and tumors were monitored by MRI and harvested for immune, transcriptomic, and proteomic profiling, or ex vivo co-culture studies. Single-cell RNA sequencing on human mCRPC samples was performed using 10X Genomics platform.
Coclinical trials in PTEN/p53-deficient GEM revealed that recruitment of PD-1–expressing tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) thwarts ADT/PI3Ki combination–induced tumor control. The addition of aPD-1 to ADT/PI3Ki combination led to TAM-dependent approximately 3-fold increase in anticancer responses. Mechanistically, decreased lactate production from PI3Ki-treated tumor cells suppressed histone lactylation within TAM, resulting in their anticancer phagocytic activation, which was augmented by ADT/aPD-1 treatment and abrogated by feedback activation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway. Single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis in mCRPC patient biopsy samples revealed a direct correlation between high glycolytic activity and TAM phagocytosis suppression.
Immunometabolic strategies that reverse lactate and PD-1–mediated TAM immunosuppression, in combination with ADT, warrant further investigation in patients with PTEN-deficient mCRPC.